Team RV Goes to The Black Hills and Yellowstone
Labor Day 2002, The story continues. |
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8/31/02 The
team hits the road to Yellowstone. The city of West Yellowstone, MT is only about 1 mile
from the entrance to the park. We saw herds of Buffalo, herds of Elk, a Coyote(Didn't see
any damn bears, boo hoo). Not to mention the Geysers, paint pots and hot springs. As we
drove the park our heads were turned at every corner with more to see. The photo's below
show just a few of the sites to see. |
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This photo was taken out the van sliding door, the
Buffalo were standing on the edge of the road 5 ft away! |
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| This old guy was
just sitting off the road in his pose as to say, "Don't miss this shot"(With a
camera) |
The Old
Faithful Geyser blows off at a regular interval. So regular the park posts the next time.
It shoots over 150 ft into the air. |
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I think this is my
favorite photo of the trip. It was taken from a spot called Artist Point, looking back at
the Upper Falls. They call this the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. Late in the afternoon, Mike, Danny and I again went out
for a flight over the park and saw all the sights again from a birds eye view.
During dinner in the small town of West Yellowstone, we were approached
numerous times with questions about the Team RV shirts and the formation flying over town,
we ate it up! |
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9/1/02
With a morning departure from West Yellowstone, we headed up the back side of the
Grand Teton Mountain range headed to Jackson Hole, WY. Gradually sloping up hill to over
13,000 ft. |
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As we
crested the ridge of the Grand Teton Mountains we were graced with this view. No, it's not
a postcard. The weather was fantastic!. Over the lake we turned inbound to Jackson Hole
for a quick stop. |
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During the departure
from Jackson Hole we had to climb back up to over 12,500ft and all eyes were on the oil
and cylinder head temps. As we managed our climb rates for proper cooling and topped the
crest of the first peak, we took a photo of this Glacier. It was pretty turbulent as we
headed eastbound for the homeward leg of the trip. |
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The gas
stop of the day was Guernsey, WY. The staff of one, topped us off and gave us 2 courtesy
cars pointing out the way to the Greasy Spoon for lunch. |
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With only
1 stop from Jackson Hole, WY to Kansas City, MO and a long day of flying, we arrived back
at Liberty Landing International grass strip. |
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The day
ended as all had during the trip, with a good meal and great times, Mike, Michelle, Danny
and Matt spent the night with us before their final flight back to the south on Monday. This is one of many trips I had always
planned on taking while building our plane. We were very lucky to share it with our
friends. One hell of an adventure for us flat landers.
What's in store for these adventurers next, well, The Bahama's is
on our radar, Alaska is in the works, who knows, there are a lot of 3 and 4 day weekends
we will gladly stretch to 5 days for the next trip.
Memories to last a lifetime
Michelle Hurley has put together a fantastic streaming
video of the trip. Here is the LINK I would suggest
that you right click on the High Internet Version and download the video to your desktop ,
then watch it locally. |
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